Posted on 07/17/2007 6:17:51 PM PDT by CodeToad
In 1973, a Frenchman named Jean Raspail wrote a bitter and paranoid novel about the "invasion" of his native land by starving Third World refugees. The book was a racist vision of the consequences of non-white immigration, aided and abetted, in the author's view, by the weak-minded liberals who failed to resist it. For almost 35 years, The Camp of the Saints has been a Bible to the radical right.
Now, courtesy of former Navy SEAL Matthew Bracken, comes the American version — a portrait of the apocalypse Bracken fears will overtake America thanks to undocumented immigration from the south. The book is a fictionalized version of the Aztlan conspiracy theory — the idea that Mexico is secretly planning a "reconquista" (reconquering) of the seven states of the Southwest — that now animates large swaths of the anti-immigration movement. It's being plugged on extremist websites, in gun magazines and similar electronic venues, and on immigrant-bashing radio shows like Peter Boyles' program on KHOW-AM in Denver.
This isn't the first angry, self-published novel from Bracken. His new book, Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista, is the second in a series that began with another paranoid fantasy about gun control and evil agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a favorite bête noire of the extreme right. His latest book, marked by an enthusiastic interest in busty women, is a xenophobe's racy vision of hell.
Domestic Enemies opens in a secret Oklahoma prison camp (D-camp) full of women detained by the federal government for acts of terrorism. Here, Bracken's curvaceous 27-year-old heroine, Ranya Bardiwell, tends the fields under the supervision of gun-toting "Internal Security Agency" guards, monitored all the while by a Radio Frequency Identification Device implanted in her shoulder. Through flashbacks, we learn that Bardiwell gave birth to a son five years ago in federal prison. He was taken from her just minutes out of the womb. The action begins as Bardiwell is summoned to the office of a female warden who attempts to seduce her. They take a bubble bath together, during which the warden reveals that Bardiwell's son is living in Albuquerque, N.M., and has been adopted by FBI agent Alex Garabanda and his IRS agent wife.
Enraged at the thought of her child being raised by federal agents, Bardiwell straddles the naked warden and chokes her to death in the tub. She escapes, intent on recovering her son, but finds herself in a brave new post-amnesty world.
Gas is at $29 a gallon, gold at $7,000 an ounce. A lethal epidemic of "Monkey Pox" has swept through the southeast. Crime and out-of-control interest rates have citizens abandoning their homes by the thousands for tent camps in the "free states" of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Preoccupied by ethnic violence in major cities and economic turmoil, the federal government has let southwestern states sink into bedlam. Armed gangs besiege Arizona and Phoenix has lost electrical power. Los Angeles is under martial law as neighborhoods burn.
And New Mexico, where Bardiwell heads to retrieve her boy, has become a haven for communist revolutionaries. Now it's "Nuevo Mexico." The state has passed Spanish-only laws and razed businesses with English signs. Ranches once owned by Anglos are seized and given to former undocumented immigrants. The brutal, M-16-toting Milicia de Nuevo Mexico aims to get rid of all Anglos.
Bardiwell is captured by the militia in Albuquerque. But, entranced by her curves and her marksmanship — demonstrated when she shoots a hippie — the dashing Comandante Basilo Ramos orders Bardiwell to conduct weapons training for his troops and makes her his mistress, holding her captive in his mansion. In a bizarre scene, Bardiwell drugs Ramos, photographs him sodomizing a communist professor whom he strangles during sex, then escapes out a second-story window, climbing down a rope made from the comandante's silk ties. Bardiwell then hooks up with her child's disillusioned adoptive father, Alex Garabanda, who is suicidal after losing custody of the boy to his ex-wife the IRS agent and her lesbian lover.
Bardiwell and Garabanda set out to rescue the boy from his "two mommies," but first stop to conduct surveillance at a secret meeting of traitorous politicians and "billionaire globalists" drafting a new Constitution to turn America socialist.
Discovered while photographing the meeting, Bardiwell shoots down a Blackhawk helicopter and she and Garabanda escape to San Diego. In hot pursuit is Comandante Ramos, who vows to take Bardiwell to a Mexican whorehouse, inject her with heroin and force her to work as a prostitute, and IRS storm troopers, led by the steroid-enhanced girlfriend of Garabanda's ex-wife.
Ultimately, the pair recover the child, and the book closes with them cheek to cheek in a small plane flying north, the boy sleeping next to them.
Domestic Enemies plods along between the over-the-top action sequences. Bracken oversexualizes his gun-loving heroine, devoting as much prose to her breasts as he does her weapons — which is a lot — and many minor players come off as one-dimensional caricatures. But a sexy heroine shooting guns of varying calibers at liberal, communist, open-borders villains in a world destroyed by immigration and multiculturalism is an irresistible fantasy for the audience this genre of fiction attracts – no matter the novel's numerous flaws.
Of course, this fictionalization is hardly necessary, even for those given to this kind of thing. All one need do is listen to real-life zealots like Glenn Spencer, head of the hate group American Border Patrol, who puts it like this: "Our country is being invaded by Mexico with hostile intentions. When it blows up, they can't say we didn't tell them, when the blood starts flowing on the border and in L.A. We're [talking] about la reconquista."
— Susy Buchanan
This made my night!
BTTT!
Pretty good review. Curvacious girl with guns. It does make you want to go and buy it.
OK, I have to have it. It is interesting that "reviewers" such as our author here have so much to say about your plot and so little to say about your case. It's just...well, it's raciss', that's all, and no more need be said. Some of us beg to differ.
I gotta admire ya, McGee - getting the Southern Poverty Law Center to review yer book. Maybe it'll appear in the Village Voice or the Workers' Daily. How'd you do it? ROTFLMAO!
The book is 540 pages long. You can bet that Susy would have loved to call the book (and me) racist.....but she couldn’t. It’s just not in the book, not even between the lines.
So she had to take about 5 pages out of 540 out of context, and make the book sound like a boob and sodomy fest. It’s not, it’s just the best she could do to try to tar it.
All I can think is that Susy must be a dried-up skinny hag from PC University, who hates attractive heterosexual patriotic women.
Yeah, me too. Something that reminded me of it lately, in a backwards sort of way, was a TV news magazine show about the dismantling of ships in India, which has been going on for quite a while. Of course, the show is about the horrible conditions etc. and how we are foisting all our toxic wastes on them etc. but I was struck by the imagery of the rusting hulks, which put me in mind of the book, where the decrepit ships converge on European harbors. Ironically, the reverse of this is actually happening, as far as the rusting hulks are concerned.
Speaking of quislings...
I noticed that the SPLC is often cited as a source over at “WideAwakes”. When that crowd was still here I was certain that a number of them were taking their material straight from the SPLC, and now they make no pretense at hiding the fact.
Now just wait a minute here - you say “boob and sodomy fest” like it’s a bad thing...
The Southern Poverty Law Center is and always has been an arm of the Left. Morris Dees has made a career out of labeling conservative groups as hate groups, racists, nativists, the usual litany. One of his tricks is to link conservative groups with outfits like Stormfront.
There used to be some posters here who routinely used SPLC’s material. Fortunately they have mostly moved on to another site, where they can slander conservatives without annoying the rest of us.
We’re proud’a you, “Nativist!”
This is a good advertisement for you, Travis. You should post it on your profile page. Keep up the good work.
You just know she wanted to find racism in the book, but not even ultra PC Susy from the SPLC could do that, because it's not there. Her boob fixation (not mine, there are maybe a half dozen "sexy" pages out of 540) was the best she could do instead. She must have been very disappointed to find Arab, hispanic and black heroes throughout the book.
Hell yeah.., this works for me.
Bumping to the top of my 'to read' list.
BTW Susy B, if you are reading this (as I surmise that the SPLC monitors all the so called 'radical right-wing' web sites), I'm sure that your 'back-handed' review of Matt Brackens tome- as posted at FreeRepublic - will only serve to increase his readership and books sales.
Good job Matt.
Anything that makes those fascist/marxist traitor creeps at the SPLC 'clinch' and whimper 'mommy' is a good thing.
BTTT
/jasper
The subtext of course being that anyone who resists untrammeled immigration is a racist.”
Funny this was posted today.
Today I was called a racist to my face because I don’t like illegals invading my country.This was by someone at my job.
According to her, many people have complained that I hate Latinos, but that wasn’t all. I also hate and blacks and jews.
I imagine that’s for the blacks and jews sneaking into the country.
I plan to. Coming from them, it's a great review.
were the harpies here now they would be slamming us as racists for slurring pedophile incestuous Dees’s center for what it is....a nest of race baiting charlatans
i can remember several of them calling me a bigot for loathing the SPLC over southern stuff
“So she had to take about 5 pages out of 540 out of context, and make the book sound like a boob and sodomy fest. It’s not, it’s just the best she could do to try to tar it.
All I can think is that Susy must be a dried-up skinny hag from PC University, who hates attractive heterosexual patriotic women.”
I wonder if she read the same book I did....
ROTFLOL!!
“So she had to take about 5 pages out of 540 out of context, and make the book sound like a boob and sodomy fest. It’s not, it’s just the best she could do to try to tar it.
All I can think is that Susy must be a dried-up skinny hag from PC University, who hates attractive heterosexual patriotic women.”
I wonder if she read the same book I did....
ROTFLOL!!
It should increase book sales : )
The quintessential left wing hatchet job!
ping
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